Staff Nurse - Planned Care Community District Nursing | Royal NHS Trust

Are you fed-up and looking for a change, if the answer is yes, then we at Adult Community Services have the job for you.

• Flexible working
• Dedicated and robust 6 week super-numery induction
• Promote and support you to be an autonomous and independent practitioner
• Promote remote working
• Support you to manage your own working day
• Encourage you to be part of new and exciting developments and service improvements
• Empower you to have a voice and bring new ideas and transferable skills to our teams
• Support you to lead on changes to improve and develop our services
• Support with funding for personal development such as degree top up, masters, apprenticeships, stand‑alone modules such as health assessment, Tissue Viability, End of life and many more!
• Technology to help support you to do your job along with support to develop skills in using technology
• Support you in complex case management of patients
• Offer professional advocacy sessions with in house professional advocates for one to one and group sessions
• We have dedicated community practice education facilitators to help support you with competencies and new skills and development

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services. We are proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve and have been rated as “Good” by CQC.

• To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.
• To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.
• To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students.
• To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors.
• Participate in the assessment of patient care needs, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care in accordance with the agreed policies and procedures of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
• Administer prescribed medication and treatment in a timely manner, in accordance with Trust policies and Professional guidelines.
• Take responsibility for groups of patients as required, with minimal supervision from senior staff.
• Deliver evidence based care, and promote the use of evidence based practice, referring to Nursing Clinical Practices accordingly.
• Liaise effectively with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure timely delivery of care and develop good working relationships.
• Practise within an ethical framework based upon respect for the well‑being and safety of patients and clients.
• Maintain accurate and legible records of care and other documentation in accordance with Trust and professional standards.
• Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and recognise personal accountability.
• Report on treatment, care, and any concerns, promptly and effectively to senior staff to maintain effective communication channels.
• Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.
• Practice in such a way that ensures efficient and effective use of resources.
• Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.
• Communicate effectively with patients and relatives to promote patient/carer involvement, so that they can make informed choices and understand their treatment and planned care.
• Maintain a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root…